(Trinidad Express) – Businessman Lawrence Duprey is disappointed about what is described as the People’s Partnership Government’s poor management of the collapsed CL Financial conglomerate and he is willing to return to Trinidad and Tobago “to set things right”.
(Jamaica Gleaner) John Maxwell, the fiery journalist and environmentalist, died from lung cancer late Friday at the age of 76.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Two of the top three candidates in Haiti’s presidential election yesterday rejected a plan to have vote tally sheets rechecked by a new commission amid allegations of irregularities and fraud.
(Barbados Nation) Dame Olga Lopes-Seale, also popularly known as ‘Aunty Olga’ has been hospitalised in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) after falling at her Stanmore Crescent, Black Rock, St Michael home and breaking a hip on Thursday evening.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leaders said yesterday they feared President Hugo Chavez would use decree powers he has requested to override an electoral setback that stripped him of a super-majority in parliament.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Detailed genetic tests confirm that the cholera strain that has killed more than 2,000 people in Haiti came from south Asia and most closely resembles a strain circulating in Bangladesh, U.S.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s electoral authorities said yesterday they would urgently recheck vote tally sheets from the Caribbean country’s troubled presidential elections to try to defuse a dispute over the results that has triggered nationwide unrest.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The contractor general Greg Christie has again questioned whether there is the political will in Jamaica to address the problem of corruption.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Fire engulfed a prison in the Chilean capital early yesterday, killing 81 inmates and critically injuring 14 others, the government said, in the country’s third-deadliest blaze ever.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala’s Congress yesterday passed a bill that would allow the government to confiscate property from convicted criminals in a bid to target the wealth of powerful drug traffickers.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan lawmakers allied to President Hugo Chavez named nine new Supreme Court judges on Tuesday, squeezing the vote in before a new parliament that could block the Socialist Party’s picks is formed in January.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Traffic in the Panama Canal, a major shipping waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, has been suspended temporarily due to heavy rains, the canal authority said yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad Cement Ltd shocked local and regional stock markets on Monday as one of the region’s most widely held shares reported a loss of $80.8 million for the quarter ended September 30 and announced that it was seeking a restructuring of its debt.
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Nicaragua received “suitcases full of cash” from Venezuela that may have helped to sway tainted elections in 2008, according to U.S.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government on Monday took control of a fifth of shares in Globovision, an opposition television network opposed to President Hugo Chavez, the state news agency said.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – A frontrunner in Haiti’s presidential election race warned outgoing President Rene Preval’s government and electoral authorities yesterday to expect protests if Preval’s candidate emerged among the top two vote winners in results expected today.
The secret files of the Security Intelligence Agency (SIA) have been destroyed by two Israeli men, Justice Minister Herbert Volney has disclosed.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan security forces have started housing families displaced by floods in tourist hotel rooms following an order by President Hugo Chavez to make use of vacant accommodation, local media said yesterday.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – President Hugo Chavez blamed “criminal” capitalism yesterday for global climate phenomena including heavy rains that have killed scores and left tens of thousands homeless in Venezuela and Colombia.
(Trinidad Guardian) Clico chairman Gerry Yetming said on Friday that he is preparing to recommend to Finance Minister Winston Dookeran that the government not pay the 14,000 holders of the insurance company’s short-term policies and mutual funds, unless former Clico chairman Lawrence Duprey “comes to the table to renegotiate the terms of the June 2009 shareholders’ agreement.”
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